Ls Parliament this week, political discussion has been placed in abeyance : speakers have betrayed that listlessness which arises from the doubt that all present action may be...

union of the two Canadas. A majority in favour of the Union has been secured by the elections just completed for the new provincial Parliament ; but a fearful price has been...

settled ; that the " treaty " agreed upon between Captain ELLIOT and the Imperial Commissioner only awaited the formal conclusion, which it was to receive "in a few days." The...

campaigning projects. While British troops are exposed to hardship and death in the endeavour to wring tribute for SHAH SOOJAH from his rebellious subjects, the potentate...

REDUCTION OF DUTIES. In the House of Commons, on Monday, Lord SANDON announced, that on Friday he should move a resolution which would give the House an opportunity of...

On Monday, in answer to Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that on Friday next he should state the amount of duty which he would propose to lay on the importation of foreign...

THE Court has been rusticating at Windsor for the greater part of the week, and the record of events is scanty. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince and...

Saturday last, the Prince has daily taken equestrian exercise, but has not hunted in any of the Parks, as that amusement has beets considered by the medical advisers of his...

Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey is spoken of as likely to be put forward as candidate for the office of City Comptroller ; some influential persons in the City wishing to see him...

London University was held on Saturday, for conferring the medical prizes. Mr. Shell presided, and distributed the prizes ; and he dispensed a long oration to the crowded...

at Exeter Hall, on Tuesday ; the Earl of Chichester presiding. On the platform, were Viscount Sandon, Lord Glenelg, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Chester, Mr....

held on Saturday, at the New Zealand House. The report presented a highly favourable view of the Company's affairs, and suggested new enterprises for the benefit of the colony....

Newington, which are very numerous, were again brought forward at Worship Street, on Thursday. By persevering in disputing the validity of the rates, the cases, all but a few...

of Waldegrave and Captain William Duff were brought up for sentence, for an outrageous assault on Wheatley, a Policeman at Hampton-wick. On the 4th of June, a party, consisting...

A seat for the borough of Sandwich is vacant by the death of Sir Rufane Dankin. Colonel Fox, a son of the late Lord Holland, and the husband of one of the daughters of Wifliam...

last, to consider a petition to the House of Commons deprecating the Government proposal to increase the present duties on Colonial timber, as "highly injurious to the interests...

and Stipendiary Chaplains in Poor-law Unions, at Newcastle, on Monday morning, a resolution proposed by the Chartists to adjourn till the evening was carried. The Mayor, who...

The Dublin Monitor hails what it takes for a glimpse of returning sense in Mr. O'Connell. Speaking of the Repeal Association's meeting on Monday " A letter from Mr. O'Connell...

A letter was received in Edinburgh, the other day, from a gentleman high in office, stating that her Majesty's Government were unanimous in their determination to support the...

report, that at the next election the Honourable Lauderdale Maule is to oppose the Honourable D. G. Halliburton, for the county of Forfar ; George Kinloch, Esq. "of that ilk,"...

of Glasgow University took place on Saturday last, in the Common Hall of the College, in presence of the Faculty of the University, the students, and a numerous assemblage of...

Queen Adelaide has given one hundred pounds as a donation to the{ fund to be raised by the Spitalfields Weavers' ball. The Baron de Bourqueney gave a grand dinner, at Hertford...

Lord Worsley addressed a letter to the electors of the Parts of Lindsey, on the 5th May, in which he told them that he was getting up a requisition to the Sheriff to call a...

Saturday, at Southampton. Sir Rufane had for some time been labouring under mental derangement ; and had more than once told Dr. Haviland, his medical attendant, that he thought...

India mail of this month, as Envoy to China, to supersede Captain Elliot ; with full power to settle all differences. The Volage arrived on Thursday morning at Portsmouth, with...

just been printed, with an account of the peiitions sent in from the 27th January to the 30th ApriL We extract some of the largest figures. The petitions against Lord Stanley's...

occasion of his birthday, on the 1st current, was celebrated on Saturday and Sunday ; and the baptism of the King's grandson, the Count of Paris, which was performed on Sunday,...

from Bombay to the 1st April, and from Macao to the 12th February. The news from China is not very satisfactory. From the time of the restoration of the Bogue forts to the...

of firstrate importance. The generally disordered state of some of the disturbed provinces had grown worse since the despatch of the last mail. An action is recorded in Scinde,...

the struggle in the House of Commons last night, between the Ministerial attempt to alter the Sugar, Timber, and Corn duties, and Lord Sandon's counterresolution not to touch...

A Cabinet Council was held today at two o'clock. It was attended by all the Ministers. The Council met at Lord Normanby's house, in Hill Street, Berkley Square ; on account of...

Anti-Corn-law Association met at their office in the Strand, yesterday, and resolved to address separately every district in the Metropolis; and to make their sitting permanent...

morning announces that the Council of the Corn-law League is in full activity : the extent of the correspondence with its numerous branches is astonishing : "few post-offices"...

and North American Colonists was held at the King's Arms, Palace Yard. It was attended by a large number of Members of Parliament, as well as by deputations from the Society for...

to bring in a bill to empower the Woods and Forests to purchase lands for the purpose of a Park in the East of the Metropolis.

population against the authority of the Porte has broken out in several districts of Bulgaria ; and it threatened to extend to Macedonia.

The Tory. Lowry. and Catherine, Evans, from Singapore to China, have both been abandoned at sea, full of water. Arrived—Off Margate. May 6th, Montrose, Peters, from Bengal. At...

BIRTHS. On the 17th ult„ at Rome, the Lady of Sir GEORGE BAKER, Bart., of a son aud heir. On the 4th lust., the Hon. Mrs. Taorrea, Connaught Place, of a daughter. On the 2d...

THE starring system has hitherto worked well at the Haymarket, for WEBSTER has been lucky in catching the errant luminaries in theirtransit ; but the non-arrival of BUCKSTONE...

Garden since Easter ; and as the benefits are beginning, we conclude the season is about to (lose. London Assurance has been a match for Money. A domestic melodrama of a kind...

at theNew Strand this week ; and answered the end of raising a laugh by its witless absurdity. Mrs. KEELEY had a part so bad that even she could scarcely make any thing of it.

on Wednesday, for the benefit of Madame BALFE ; who took Miss SHERRIFF'S part of Clara, and performed it with dramatic force and brilliant success. The vaudeville presented to...

nook and corner of Drury Lane was filled on Wednesday, when Madame SCHODEL made her first appearance as Pamina, in lieu of HEINEy}.1.1Eit.. This change is not an improvement.

DIODOICony of pieces and performers that has characterized the management for several years. The ballet department has fallen below the average. La Fille de r Exit, founded on...

the Parisians, is to appear on Monday at her Majesty's Theatre, in RACINE'S Andromague.

Taz Budget is not what the Ministerial clacqueurs have attempted to represent it, a measure of Tariff Reform : it is merely the makeshift arrangement proposed by a Government...

IN our remarks on the Budget we have expressed no opinion regarding Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S notice of a motion regarding the Corn-laws ; because, as we there remarked, that motion,...

LORD Jonas RUSSELL'S proposition is undeniable: but it does not negative the resolution of Lord BANDON. The Report of the Import-duties Committee has demonstrated that it is...

THIS Tariff Reform seems to puzzle Lord MELBOURNE and-Sir ROBERT PEEL to about nearly the same degree. Each expresses his sense of the awkwardness of the question after a...

MINISTERS have been accused of lacking all sense of self-respect— of having no point of honour by which they would stand to extremity. How unjust the accusation is, Lord...

THE Dii inferiores of the Whig party are chuckling complacently over the stroke which they allege their leader keeps in reserve. If the worst come to the worst, the Whigs are to...

OUR readers are probably aware of the extensive fire which last week destroyed Gordon's Hotel, in Albemarle Street. They may not be aware, however, that the fire is attributed...

THE nerves of the Philharmonic Directors always relax with the commencement of May : if they are ever braced and vigorous, it is in winter. The scheme of the fifth concert shows...

THE destiny of the Ancient Concerts is controlled by the mere caprice o fashion ; and the success or failure of a season or a single concert is wholl y unaffected by the music...

UP to the beginning of the last century, the shipbuilding trade in India was entirely in the hands of the natives ; and when the Com pany wanted a vessel, they contracted to...

MR. KENNEDY went to Canada under Lord DURHAM, as a Sub Commissioner of Municipal Inquiry. After the resignation of his patron, he proceeded to the United States, on a tour of...

IN this little volume Captain MARRYAT has broken new ground, with good prospects of succeeding. Having promised his children to write a book for them, without considering what...

fashionable flirtations and matchmaking manceuvres, interwoven with broad caricatures of servants and toadies, plebeian bores and aristocratic asses ; wound up by a melodramatic...

Boosts. Journal of a Residence of two years and a half in Great Britain. By JEIIANGEER NOWROJEE and HIRJEEETIOY MEnwoNrEE, of Bombay, Naval Architects. Texas : the Rise,...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. THE pay-entrance of the National Gallery was opened on Monday for the receipt of shillings to see the great picture-show of the season. The rain,...

vv.. OFFICE, May 7.-796a Regt. of Foot–Ma:air-Gen-the Hon. J. Ramsay to be Col. vice Gen. Sir R. C. Ferguson, G.C.B. deceased. COMMERCIAL GAZETTE. Tuesday, May 4....